"I'm always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs."

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"I'm always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs."

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Explore more quotes by Mose Allison

"I'm playin' music for a certain type of person. Fortunately, there are more and more of us. At least there are more comin' to see me than there were 30 years ago or so."

Music

"There's a lot of terrible things goin' on all the time, but you gotta try and have some fun in the end."

Time

"I just try to do as good job with the material as I can and play some jazz as well, some improvised music, and do that every night. Just see where it goes."

Music

"I went through the whole number, you know. The swing era, the boogie woogie era, the bebop era. Thelonious Monk is still one of my favorites. So a lot of these people had their effect on me."

People

"I do very few standards. Hardly any. Other people's tunes that I do are usually obscure tunes, for the most part, although I do a couple of Duke Ellington tunes that are well known."

People

"I sang and wrote songs when I was 12 years old."

Old

"It's as much fun as it ever was, you know, once I get there. Gettin' there is a little harder."

Fun

"But I got an audience that knows what I do. They usually show up, so I usually do pretty good."

Pretty

"Pizza Express has been a real godsend for me. I've been working there for several years, six weeks a year. You can go to work every night and play. It's a nice little club. It's just about the right size for me, about 150 people."

Work

"I've been able to do pretty well. I don't work as many consecutive nights as I used to, but I'm still working over 100 nights a year, so that's good for me."

Work